Chennai ,April 9 The Madras High Court has granted time till June 25 for the Tamil Nadu government to take a decision on the request by Minority schools to exempt them from certain provisions of the new Tamil Nadu Private Schools (Regulation ) Act of 2018. The Act , it may be recalled had come […]
Chennai, Nov 15 (BPNS) A councilor of Greater Chennai Corporation has joined hands with an NGO for improving the English language skills of children of her ward in Ashok Nagar. The councilor, Yazhini .B, who is a representative of Dalit political party, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) while speaking to BPNS said, “ My schooling was […]
New Delhi, November 14, 2022 For the second year in a row, a record number of Indian students chose the United States to pursue higher education. According to the Open Doors Report released today, almost 200,000 Indian students chose the United States as their higher education destination in the 2021-22 academic year, a 19 percent […]
Chennai, Nov 11 (BPNS) The Indian Institute of Madras has developed a localized regional weather model to predict rainfall at the ward level and is now implanted in the Chennai corporation. This was a research project of an IIT Madras scholar, Krithiga to provide weather forecasts for irrigation management and is now used in Chennai […]
Chennai, Nov 9 (BPNS) Seven senior MBBS students of the prestigious Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore were suspended by the college management after they had subjected juniors to ragging. A first-year MBBS student had shared the video in which he and other batch mates were subjected to ragging by seniors. The video which went viral […]
Chennai, Nov 5 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu School education department has announced that it would commence coaching classes for Class 11 and Class 12 students for National Eligibility Cum Entrance Examination (NEET). The classes, according to a statement from the school education department would start in the third week of November. Around 420 centres are […]
Chennai, Nov 4 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu school education department has commenced career guidance classes for students in government schools who are in classes 11 and 12. The classes are designed in such a manner that students will be empowered to do self-assessment of themselves. This, according to a senior officer with the school education […]
Chennai, Nov 3 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu has slipped a notch below in the Performance Grading Index (PGI) of the Union Ministry of Education report released on Thursday. Kerala and Andhra Pradesh retained their positions among the top seven performing states of the country along with Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Chandigarh, and Maharashtra. Performance Grading Index (PGI) […]
Chennai, Oct 28 (BPNS) The delay in releasing funds from the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) has led to the schools in Tamil Nadu not properly carrying out maintenance work in the schools of the state before the onset of the monsoon. The northeast monsoon is slated to touch Tamil Nadu on October 29, Saturday. The […]
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 23 (BPNS) Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, in a surprise move has asked all the nine Vice Chancellors of the state to resign from their respective posts. The Kerala Governor said that the action was following the Supreme Court ordering the resignation of the Kerala Technical University Vice-Chancellor. Arif Mohammed Khan has directed […]
